{"id":31623,"date":"2016-11-02T19:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T02:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/inside-the-garage-labs-of-diy-gene-hackers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:18:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:18:20","slug":"inside-the-garage-labs-of-diy-gene-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/inside-the-garage-labs-of-diy-gene-hackers","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Garage Labs of DIY Gene Hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the future of genetic engineering arrived on Sebastian Cocioba\u2019s doorstep, it was affixed to the back of a postcard from Austria with a little bit of packing tape.<\/p>\n<p>Cocioba is a 25-year-old college dropout whose primary interest is tinkering with plant genetics in a lab he cobbled together from eBay. The lab is located in the spare bedroom of his parent\u2019s lavish apartment in Long Island City, across the river from Manhattan. A few months ago, an internet friend from an online bio-hacking forum had sent him the lab\u2019s latest addition: attached to that postcard was Crispr-Cas9.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/transgenicnews.com\/2016\/11\/02\/glabs\/\">https:\/\/transgenicnews.com\/2016\/11\/02\/glabs\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the future of genetic engineering arrived on Sebastian Cocioba\u2019s doorstep, it was affixed to the back of a postcard from Austria with a little bit of packing tape. Cocioba is a 25-year-old college dropout whose primary interest is tinkering with plant genetics in a lab he cobbled together from eBay. The lab is located [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59873,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31623\/revisions\/59873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}